“He spoke of a clamp on the State and is putting a stop to education“Now there is a lot of aggression coming to the public university,” said the former president about the current administration during the meeting with the recently elected presidents of the student centers of FADU, Exact Sciences, Philosophy and Letters and Social Sciences.
In this regard, he pointed out that education in Argentina has always been a passport to progress and improvement. “Where the merit of a society is really seen is in the boys and girls who go to public universities, where they have to study to graduate. They contradict his speech on merit“, he added.
“I think they missed the vizcachazo there, because confusing public employment or the Statewhich can be seen as bureaucratic by many Argentines… The same does not happen with the university“, considered.
In this regard, the former president stressed that “college is where everyone wants their kids to go. It’s the place where the kids have to gostudy, graduate, have a career and a future.”
“Girls’ time”: Cristina Kirchner highlighted the female presence in student leadership
On the other hand, one of the points that Kirchner highlighted upon entering the meeting was that the presidents of the four student centers were women. “Girl time,” she celebrated.
“This speaks of good things and hope. They want to sell us the cultural battle, that young people are libertarians, but in the elections of public universities they did not figure,” he stressed in this regard.
The Government announced that it will veto the University Financing Law
With 57 votes in favor, 10 against and 1 abstention, The Senate passed the University Financing Act last week. The law provides for an increase in the budget allocations for the operation of higher education institutions, as well as an update in the salaries of teaching and non-teaching staff.
The measure would generate a fiscal impact of $735.598 millionwhich represents 0.14% of GDP, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
However, during the presentation of the Budget 2025, the president Javier Milei He announced that will veto “all projects that threaten fiscal balance”. At the end of August he gave the first example by preventing the promulgation of the pension reform. The same fate could befall him university financing.
Source: Ambito
